BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, BIG DATA MANAGEMENT, DATA SCIENCE
Businesswire | May 31, 2023
Exasol today unveiled its no-compromise analytics database, which delivers more productivity, savings, and flexibility for enterprises to better manage data in the cloud, SaaS, on-premises, or hybrid. With processing times up to 20 times faster1 than any other analytics database, Exasol provides an unmatched price/performance ratio, helping customers achieve 320% 2 ROI in reduced licensing, implementation, maintenance, and training costs. Businesses interested in trying Exasol in their own tech stack with their own data can do so at no cost for a limited time through its Accelerator Program.
Under the leadership of Exasol’s recently appointed Chief Executive Officer, Joerg Tewes, the new release underscores the company’s commitment to delivering what customers need – a solution that doesn’t require them to make trade-offs between cost, efficiencies, and flexibility. With Exasol, customers can run analytics anywhere their data lives – on-premises, cloud or across multiple clouds – with no rip-and-replace, no need to move data sets, no cost shocks. With the latest enhancements, Exasol seamlessly integrates with any data stack and analytics ecosystem, and dynamically scales to accommodate even the most complex data sets, removing friction and unburdening data teams to accelerate business outcomes.
“Exasol believes customers shouldn’t ever have to make compromises with their analytics databases, especially during these times of economic uncertainty and reduced IT budgets. This is why our offering allows users to see significant performance and efficiency gains, while working within their budgets and existing tech environments,” said Joerg Tewes, CEO of Exasol. “We have hundreds of global customers using Exasol with extremely complex data, at scale. From financial services and retail customers reducing queries from hours to seconds, to agriculture firms working with complicated models supporting DNA sequencing, our customers spend more time analyzing and optimizing with less time and headcount.”
The latest enhancements to the database enable organizations to:
Avoid replacing databases and get more out of existing tech stacks: Through Exasol’s performance enhancements, scaling optimization, and real-time processing, their entire tech stacks are more efficient.
Gain the best price/performance ratio: Market-leading concurrency, fast in-memory processing and query compute distribution provides greater performance on less hardware infrastructure.
Run analytics or machine learning (ML): Exasol's ML capabilities are built directly into the in-memory database engine, to deliver even greater efficiencies and cost savings. From uncovering hidden patterns in an organization’s complete data that significantly cuts down data preparation time, to enabling customers to effortlessly utilize open-source machine learning models, Exasol's ML capabilities provide customers with unmatched efficiency and scalability – Exasol makes ML actionable at scale.
Manage data where it lives: Workloads can be moved between platforms and uniformly automated and managed through a modern technology stack, whether it’s between self or fully managed SaaS, even on an ad-hoc basis.
“Exasol is a strong member of the AWS Partner Network, with its evolution and expansion of capabilities on AWS cloud,” said Mor Hezi, Head of EMEA Technology Partnerships at AWS. “We’re thrilled to continue building our relationship with Exasol, and look forward to fostering further collaboration and mutual growth. Together, we are transforming businesses."
“Exasol has allowed us to push the boundaries of how we harness value out of our data, at a speed and scale which we never imagined,” said Cesar Picco, Senior Software Engineer at T-Mobile, USA. “We were immediately impressed with Exasol’s performance as we were able to handle multiple data science workloads simultaneously with over 200% improvement at significantly reduced effort. And this was just the beginning of our journey. In order to improve our 5G network decisions, we leverage our already existing massive amounts of business and network data to more accurately analyze potential network infrastructure. In the world of telcom, more coverage means happier customers, a superior customer experience, and ultimately a better value for our customers. Now, with these latest enhancements, we’ll be able to further explore the possibilities that lie in BI visualization, data mapping and modeling, and so much more. As the only database that offers this level of speed, efficiency, cost, and flexibility, Exasol continues to raise the bar, and we’re looking forward to more innovation, market disruption and customer satisfaction with this rollout.”
“Exasol plays an important role in our HR Data Factory and is the central data platform which, as the "digital twin" of the employees, manages data at Mercedes in a DSGVO-compliant manner. With its in-memory architecture, the Exasol database offers excellent opportunities to analyse and securely manage data with unprecedented performance,” said Jochen Linkohr, Head of HR DataFactory Team at Mercedes-Benz. “We appreciate the almost maintenance-free use of the database for many years. It enables us to increase efficiency and optimise costs, which in turn has had a positive impact on our business. We look forward to continuing our long-standing relationship with Exasol and using the new features to sustain our business."
To take advantage of the limited time Accelerator Program, and try Exasol in their own tech stack and data sets, businesses interested can go to www.exasol.com/poc. The Accelerator Program allows them to immediately start a complimentary SaaS trial or participate in a proof of concept with three months and five terabytes for free, so they can experience what no-compromises means for their organization.
About Exasol
Exasol is the no-compromise analytics database that provides increased productivity, cost-savings and flexibility, redefining how businesses use data.
With 20x faster processing, Exasol provides insights in record time, empowering businesses to solve complex problems, become more data-driven and bring innovation to life. Exasol also delivers ROI of more than 300% with reduced licensing, implementation, maintenance and training fees, eliminating cost shock and vendor-lock in. With Exasol, businesses have flexibility to manage data the way they want – in the cloud, SaaS, on-premises, or hybrid – without rip-and-replace disruption.
Hundreds of global brands like T-Mobile, Revolut, and Allianz rely on Exasol to innovate, grow and win. Join them – try Exasol for free to experience what no-compromise can do for your organization.
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, BIG DATA MANAGEMENT, DATA SCIENCE
Businesswire | June 01, 2023
Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, today announced a series of innovations to its industry recognized data quality portfolio. The announcement underscores the company’s continued commitment to helping organizations on their path to data integrity - empowering data leaders and practitioners to better understand their data and ensure it is accurate, consistent, and contextualized for confident decision-making.
Thousands of customers around the world rely on data quality solutions from Precisely for their best-in-class address validation and enrichment, sophisticated entity matching, financial reconciliation, and enforcement of data quality rules for their business. Integration with other Precisely solutions, including data governance, data observability, data integration, and data enrichment empowers customers to seamlessly address new use cases in their rapidly changing, data-driven world.
With the latest product updates, Precisely has further enhanced capabilities in its well-known solutions, building upon decades of leadership in the data quality market:
Precisely Spectrum Quality – now offers expanded capabilities for editing, visualizing, and interacting with graph data for use cases requiring a single view of critical data. It also supports the latest United States Postal Service (USPS) CASS™ Cycle O, allowing customers to benefit from improved address validation and matching to ensure accurate and efficient delivery of mail, and take advantage of reduced mailing costs. Starting in July, it will also provide the option to integrate Spectrum OnDemand directly with Precisely Property Graph – enabling users to understand the intricate relationships between addresses, parcel boundaries, building footprints and points of interest.
Precisely Trillium – offers improved connectivity with double the number of supported data sources now available for Trillium Quality and Trillium Discovery customers. The updates enhance performance and enable data quality rules to be applied to data originating from sources such as Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, and SAP S/4HANA. Starting in July, support will also be available for USPS CASS™ Cycle O.
Precisely Data360 – has been advanced with the option to integrate Data360 DQ+ with Spectrum OnDemand, allowing customers to validate emails and phone numbers, on top of being able to validate and geocode addresses using Spectrum’s well-known strengths. Several enhancements have also been made to Data360 Analyze to provide secure and easy access to Microsoft Azure Key Vault, and enable more efficient coding in Python.
These new updates follow the recent announcement of the Precisely Data Integrity Suite’s new Data Quality service, which provides complementary benefits for users of Precisely data quality solutions including Spectrum Quality, Trillium Quality, Trillium Discovery, and Data360 DQ+. The new Data Quality service means customers can run data quality processes wherever data lives – including in the cloud. It also empowers them to harness additional value by seamlessly integrating with other Suite services, including Data Integration, Data Governance, Data Observability, and more.
The announcement comes at a time when organizations are under more pressure than ever to execute on increasingly sophisticated data initiatives, requiring access to high levels of accurate, consistent, and contextualized data to achieve successful outcomes. In fact, new research1 from the Center for Business Analytics at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business revealed data quality as the number one challenge for organizations (50%), as well as being the top priority (53%) for data leaders to address in 2023, with 66% of all respondents rating the quality of their organization’s data as average, low, or very low.
“Advanced data programs ultimately rely on high-integrity data to achieve successful outcomes, and ensuring that your data is accurate, consistent, and contextualized is a critical step on the path to building that trust,” said Emily Washington, SVP – Product Management at Precisely. “We are proud to continue to evolve our unique blend of software, data, and strategic services to meet customers wherever they are on their data integrity journey and help them to stay agile in the dynamic market landscape.”
Register for the new data quality webinar series to hear directly from Precisely product experts on how customers can take advantage of these latest updates.
1.2023 Data Integrity Trends & Insights Report, Center for Business Analytics at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business in partnership with Precisely – full report coming June 2023
About Precisely
Precisely is the global leader in data integrity, providing accuracy, consistency, and context in data for 12,000 customers in more than 100 countries, including 99 of the Fortune 100. Precisely’s data integration, data quality, data governance, location intelligence, and data enrichment products power better business decisions to create better outcomes. Learn more at www.precisely.com.
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, BIG DATA MANAGEMENT, DATA SCIENCE
Businesswire | May 29, 2023
Catalyst, the leading platform to drive growth through your customers, announced it has received a strategic investment from Databricks Ventures.
This marks Databricks Ventures’ first investment in customer growth technology, showcasing their belief that customer intelligence data is essential for businesses to generate more revenue.
“Catalyst is at the forefront of evangelizing customer-led growth and has seen firsthand the power and flexibility Databricks’ Lakehouse Platform offers for delivering value with data, analytics and AI,” said Chris Hecht, SVP, Corporate Development and Product Partnerships. “By leveraging Databricks platform for their product, and having a first class integration with the Lakehouse, Catalyst is demonstrating the power of both building on Databricks and unlocking the value of data with our mutual customers, an obvious opportunity for Databricks Ventures that we’re thrilled to support.”
In addition to this investment, Catalyst will also deepen the product integration with Databricks. This will enable Catalyst customers to integrate directly with the data stored in their own Databricks Lakehouse to power the analytics offered by Catalyst. This simplifies the user experience and enables customers to get more value from their existing investments in Catalyst and Databricks.
With Catalyst’s actionable workflows and UI powered by Databricks analytics, businesses will be able to unify customer data into one, comprehensive platform—driving stronger predictability and increasing net dollar retention.
“In this economic environment, customers are the number one asset to protect, expand, and multiply through data-driven automations,” said Edward Chiu, CEO of Catalyst. “By combining Databricks’ advanced analytics with Catalyst’s enterprise integrations and powerful workflows, organizations will now be able to tackle the most critical revenue gap facing businesses today: proactive customer retention and expansion.”
About Catalyst
Catalyst is the leading platform to drive growth through your customers. Trusted by top revenue leaders at global B2B brands, Catalyst guides Sales and Success teams to turn customers into your number one engine for growth.
For more information about Catalyst, visit catalyst.io or follow Catalyst on LinkedIn.
About Databricks Ventures
Databricks Ventures is the strategic investment arm of Databricks, the data and AI company. Databricks Ventures invests in innovative companies that align with our view of the future for data, analytics and AI; and are committed to extending the lakehouse ecosystem or using the lakehouse architecture to create the next generation of data and AI-powered companies.
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